The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.

If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

But I don't think of you. - Howard Roark

It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going.

I'm not going to join any party. If I do vote again, and if I do become, you know, politically active, it will be independent.

But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a lie and we now know that our own Prime Minister deceived the country terribly.

Confidence is the stain they can't wipe off.

Dreams haunted The Riverworld.

We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.

I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children.

I did my first movie,a movie called Whiffs, which very few people ever saw.

I am very invested in the physical activity and the decision-making that is involved with making paintings - nothing else is quite like it.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.